If Obama was a really a ruthless socialist dictator, he'd have half the IRS working on an October indictment. Maybe he does.
I can't believe Romney would try to pay as little taxes as possible. What kind of sick person does that?
How many people who do that run for President on a platform of paying too much in taxes while paying sub 15%?
That's not the real issue (though his willingness to engage in elaborate tax avoidance schemes can be interpreted as saying something about him...) - his entire campaign, to the extent it can even be deemed to focus on anything (which is highly arguable by itself), seems to focused on the idea that rich people pay too many taxes, whereas he's paying a far lower share of his income than most of us ever will. Even more bizarrely, it's secondary focus is a long term budgetary crisis - and his remedy is to reduce revenues. LOLWUTPEAR?
1. I don't think the point being made by the Obama campaign is that Mitt is a tax cheat-- unless, of course, HuffPost is right about their theory that some of Bain's tax saving strategies are actually illegal. 2. Instead, the relevant points are as follows: A. The variety of tax shelters that allow Mitt's to pay a rather low tax rate (even the 13% he said he paid is significantly lower than the rate paid by many much less wealthy people) shows that America's wealthy, the supposed "job creators" are hardly being overtaxed as the GOP claims that they are-- and hardly need another tax cut as proposed by the Romney-Ryan budget, which would, among other things, cut capital gains tax from 15% to 0% and take Mitt's supposed 13% tax rate down to less than 1%. B. Mitt's claim that he knows how to fix the economy because he is some sort of private sector captain of industry/job creator is rather dubious. He's not exactly Henry Ford or Bill Gates. Instead, he's a guy who placed bets to maximize return on money. Some of them resulted in a net gain of jobs, other bets/investments resulted in job cuts, outsourcing, etc. Other maneuvers are just tax shelters. It's all fine as far as maximizing your return on money goes, but this isn't exactly what Mitt presents himself to be.
